Trevor WholohanThis Day in History August 30th
August 29th 2007 22:59
This Day in History
30 B.C. - Cleopatra, the seventh queen of Egypt, committed suicide.
1862 - The Confederates defeated Union forces at the second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.
1905 - Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1939 - NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph
1941 - Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
1945 - General Douglas MacArthur set up Allied occupation headquarters in Japan.
1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Forces.
1956 - White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1960 - A partial blockade was imposed on West Berlin by East Germany.
1963 - The "Hotline" between Moscow and Washington, DC, went into operation.
1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
1968 - 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
1969 - 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1979 - Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1979 - Hurricane David hit the Caribbean island of Dominica. The hurricane took 1,100 lives in its journey through the Caribbean and the eastern U.S. seaboard.
1983 - The space shuttle Challenger blasted off with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first black American to travel in space.
1984 - The space shuttle Discovery lifted off for the first time. On the voyage three communications satellites were deployed.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
1989 - Leona Helmsley was found guilty of income tax evasion by a New York federal jury
1990 - Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
1993 - The first episode of the Late Show with David Letterman airs on CBS, following Letterman's move from NBC.
1993 - 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement.
1996 - An expedition to raise part of the Titanic failed when the nylon lines being used to raise part of the hull snapped.
2005 - The 17th Street Canal in New Orleans is breached during Hurricane Katrina, leading to massive flooding and destruction.
Famous Birthday’s
1907 Fred MacMurray Kankakee Ill, actor (The Dad on My 3 Sons, The Shaggy Dog)
1918 - Ted Williams Baseball's last .400 hitter (Boston Red Sox, hit .406, .344 lifetime)
1919 - Kitty Wells Nashville Tn, country singer (I can’t stop Loving You)
1928 - Bill Daily Des Moines Iowa, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Newhart)
1972 - Cameron Diaz, actress(The Mask, Charlies Angels, Shek, Gang’s of New York)
Famous Death’s
1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
2003 - Charles Bronson, actor(The Dirty Dozen, Death Wish, Hard Times) (b. 1921)
2004 - Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949).
Joke of the Day
A newspaper reporter was writing a feature story about prison life and was interviewing one of the prisoners. "Do you watch much television here?"
"Only the daytime shows," the inmate said. "At night we're locked in our cells and don't see any television."
"That's too bad," the reporter said, "But I do think it is nice that the warden lets you watch it in the daytime."
"What do you mean, nice?" the inmate said. "That's part of the punishment."
Get Well Message
A motorcycle patrolman was rushed to the hospital with an inflamed appendix. The doctors operated and advised him that all was well. However, the patrolman kept feeling something pulling at the hairs on his chest.
Worried that it might be a second surgery the doctors hadn't told him about, he finally got enough energy to pull his hospital gown down enough so he could look at what was making him so uncomfortable.
Taped firmly across his hairy chest were three wide strips of adhesive tape, the kind that doesn't come off easily. Written in large black letters was the sentence.
"Get well quick..... from the nurse you gave a ticket to last week."
World Records
Most Aircraft Flown In As A Passenger
By July 2004, Edwin A Shackleton (UK) had flown in a total of 806 different types of aircraft. His first flight was in 1943 in a De Havilland DH 89 Dominie, and other aircraft have included balloons, airships, helicopters, and microlights.
Most Aircraft Taking Off In 1 Hr
A total of 87 light aircraft took off in one hour at Lelystad Airport, The Netherlands, on September 10, 2004. The event was arranged by Meine Breemhaar (Netherlands) to celebrate his wedding anniversary and the anniversary of the establishment of his company
| 22 |
| Vote |
Subscribe to this blog
